Andritz AG — Major Shareholding Notification 2017

Oct 23, 2017

Publication Date: 23.10.2017 13:47 EANS-Voting Rights: Andritz AG / Publication of a participation notification according to art. 93 para. 2 Stock Exchange Act

Notification of voting rights transmitted by euro adhoc with the aim of a Europe-wide distribution. The issuer is responsible for the content of this announcement.

On October 20, 2017 ANDRITZ AG was informed that certain subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc., Wilmington, USA, as shown on the table below, have holdings in ANDRITZ AG, which is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. As of October 19, 2017 these subsidiaries held a total of 4.01% of ANDRITZ AG's share capital (104,000,000 shares).

Person subject to notification obligation:

• * Name: Black Rock, Inc.
• * City: Wilmington
• * Country: USA

Details to the stake-holdings as of October 19, 2017:

____________
	% of voting	% of voting		Total number of
				rights attached rights through Total of both voting rights
	to shares	financial/other	in %	of issuer
				__ __ instruments __ ___
Resulting
situation on
the date on	3.87%	0.15%	4.01%	104,000,000
which threshold
was crossed /
				_reached __ __ __ __
Position of
previous	3.27%	0.63%	3.90%
				notification__ __ __ __ __

Notified details of the resulting situation:

				____________
Voting rights
attached to
				shares_ __ __ ___ ____
ISIN Code	Number of		% of voting
				__ _voting_rights ___ __rights_ __
AT0000730007	Direct	Indirect	Direct	Indirect
				__ (Sec91_BörseG) (Sec_92_BörseG) (Sec_91_BörseG) (Sec_92_BörseG)_
				___ ___ _4,020,681 __ ___3.87%
				SUBTOTAL_ ___ _4,020,681 __ ___3.87%

_____________________________________________________________________________

|Financial / | |Other | |Instruments | |pursuant to | |sec. 91a, para.| |1,_no._1_BörseG|

			Number of voting
Type of	Expiration	Exercise	rights that may	% of voting
instrument	Date	Period	be	rights
			acquired if the
			instrument is
			___ __ __ _exercised_ _______
			Securities_Lent __ __ __64,675 _____0.06%
			SUBTOTAL_ __ __ __64,675 _____0.06%

				____________
Financial /
Other
Instruments
pursuant to
sec. 91a,
para. 1, no.
3_BörseG____
Type of	Expiration Exercise		Physical /	Number of	% of voting
instrument	Date	Period	Cash	voting rights	rights
				__ _ _ _Settlement ___ _____
				CFD_ __ _ _Cash_ _89,686 __0.09%
				SUBTOTAL_ _ __ _ _89,686 __0.09%

Information in relation to the person subject to the notification obligation: Full chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial/other instruments are effectively held starting with the ultimate controlling natural person or legal entity:

	____________			Financial/
		Directly	Shares held	other	Total of both
No.	Name		controlled directly (%) instruments			(%)
		by no.		held directly
	_ _ __ ___ (%)__ _______
1	BlackRock,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
2	Trident	1
	_ Merger,LLC __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
3	Investment	2
	Management,
	_ LLC_ __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
4	Holdco 2,	1
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
5	Financial	4
	Management,
	_ Inc.__ ___ ___ __ ____
6	BlackRock	5
	_ Holdco4,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
7	BlackRock	6
	_ Holdco6,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
8	Delaware	7
	_ HoldingsInc. ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Institutional
9	Trust	8

	Company,
	National
	Association
$10$	BlackRock	8
	Fund_Advisors
	BlackRock
11	Capital	5
	Holdings,
	Inc.
12	BlackRock	11
	Advisors, LLC
	BlackRock
13	Capital	12
	Management
	$Inc._$
	BlackRock
14	International	5
	Holdings,
	$Inc.__$
	BR Jersey
15	International	14
	Holdings_L.P.
	BlackRock
16	(Singapore)	15
	Holdco Pte.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
17	(Singapore)	16
	Limited_
	BlackRock
$18\,$	Asia-Pac	16
	Holdco, LLC
	BlackRock HK
19	Holdco	$18\,$
	Limited_
	BlackRock
	Asset
20	Management	19
	North Asia
	Limited_
21	BlackRock	19
	Cayco_Limited
	BlackRock
	Trident
22	Holding	21
	Company
	Limited_
	BlackRock
23	Japan	22
	Holdings_GK_
	BlackRock
24	Japan Co.,	23
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
25	Australia	15
	Holdco Pty.
	Ltd.
	BlackRock
	Investment
26	Management	25

	(Australia)
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
27	BlackRock	15
	_ Holdco3,_LLC ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
28	Canada	27
	_ HoldingsLP __ _ _ ____
	BlackRock
29	Canada	28
	_ HoldingsULC_ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Asset
30	Management	29
	Canada
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
31	BlackRock	15
	_ GroupLimited ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
32	Advisors (UK)	31
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
33	International	31
	_ Limited __ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
34	(Netherlands)	31
	_ B.V.__ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
35	Investment	31
	Management
	_ (UK)Limited_ ___ ___ __ ____
	BlackRock
	Asset
36	Management	35
	Deutschland
	_ AG__ __ _ _ ____

Further inquiry note: Michael Buchbauer Head of Group Finance, Corporate Communications & Investor Relations Tel.: +43 316 6902 2979 Fax: +43 316 6902 465 mailto:michael.buchbauer@andritz.com

end of announcement euro adhoc --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

issuer:	Andritz AG
	Stattegger Straße 18
	A-8045 Graz
phone:	+43 (0)316 6902-0
FAX:	+43 (0)316 6902-415
mail:	welcome@andritz.com
WWW:	www.andritz.com

ISIN: AT0000730007 indexes: WBI, ATX stockmarkets: Wien language: English

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